IPL season 8 has started. India ka Tyohaar is going to bigger and better this year. We are going to get new heroes. Both Indian and foreign players are going to make their mark. All the 8 teams will be up to fight for the cup. While I talk about teams I think everyone would agree with me that Delhi Daredevils has been the most underperformed team in last few seasons of IPL. They had the players to win it in all the seasons but they haven't won it yet. I don't want to go far if I talk about Delhi Daredevils side last year. They were the strongest side on paper.
Not only players Delhi Daredevils had the best coach Gary Kirsten with them but then also they ended up at no. 8. I think to win the IPL you should have good Indian players in your squad rather than good foreign players. As only four foreign players will in the playing 11 while there are going to be 7 Indian players in the team. So it is really important to find those Indian players who will help you to win. Delhi Daredevils had so many great foreign players in their last year's squad that they got confused which four to play. Their team combination was made around foreign players which I think leads you towards disaster. According to me four foreign players should be chosen around seven Indian players which means your seven Indian players should be really good.
This year DD released almost all of its foreign players along with few Indian players and went into the auction to get some new players for its team. It retained only those players who performed well for them in the last season. In this auction DD bought Yuvraj Singh for 16 crores. Zaheer Khan, Amit Mishra and Jaydev Unadkat were other big Indian players apart from Yuvraj which DD bought at the auction. DD also bought Angelo Mathews, Gurinder Sandhu, Albie Morkel etc at the auction. In this year's auction DD bought very few players compared to their purse. This time it was not quantity but it was quality purchase from DD. Now their squad looks like this:
Squad: JP Duminy (c), Mohammed Shami, Quinton DeKock, Manoj Tiwary, Kedar Jadhav, Mayank Aggarwal, Saurabh Tiwary, Shahbaz Nadeem, Jayant Yadav, Imran Tahir, Nathan Coulter-Nile, Angelo Mathews, Yuvraj Singh, Amit Mishra, Gurinder Sandhu, Jaydev Unadkat, Shreyas Iyer, CM Gautam, Travis Head, Srikar Bharat, Albie Morkel, Markus Stoinis, Zaheer Khan, KK Jiyas, Domnic Joseph.
Gary Kirsten went for Yuvraj so hard that he didn't allow any other team to come in between. Kirsten wanted to make team around Yuvraj this year and he did that. He bought all those players who were ignored by Indian selectors for world cup 2015. Hence all these players has a point to prove. May it be Yuvraj Singh, Zaheer Khan, Amit Mishra or Manoj Tiwary all of them want to get into the Indian side. So they are going to give their everything in IPL 8. Only one thing has surprised me and that is announcing JP Duminy as captain. I thought Zaheer Khan would have been ideal for that job.
I think this year DD has got that 7 Indian players who can win IPL for them. Kirsten has already said that Yuvraj is motivated than ever. Thus I am backing Delhi Daredevils to win this season of IPL. Yuvraj and Zaheer has again teamed up with Kirsten. Moreover Kirsten also has a bunch of South African players whom he has coached earlier. He has worked with almost all the players of current DD squad. Hopefully they will mix up well and their combined effort will create magic in this IPL.
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